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Flexo-Ionic Effect of Ionic Liquid Crystal Elastomers
Molecules, 2021 The first study of the flexo-ionic effect, i.e., mechanical deformation-induced electric signal, of the recently discovered ionic liquid crystal elastomers (iLCEs) is reported.
C. P. Hemantha Rajapaksha +9 more
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Caloric effects in liquid crystal-based soft materials
JPhys Energy, 2023 With the increased environmental awareness, the search for environmentally friendlier heat-management techniques has been the topic of many scientific studies.
Dejvid Črešnar +10 more
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Liquid crystal elastomers wrinkling [PDF]
Nonlinearity, 2021 Abstract When a liquid crystal elastomer layer is bonded to an elastic layer, it creates a bilayer with interesting properties that can be activated by applying traction at the boundaries or by optothermal stimulation. Here, we examine wrinkling responses in three-dimensional nonlinear systems containing a monodomain liquid crystal ...
Alain Goriely, L Angela Mihai
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Nature Communications, 2021 Pre-patterning director fields into liquid crystal elastomers enables programmed morphing upon actuation. Guo et al. realize 3D skeletal assemblies with previously non-achievable director fields and morphing modes.
Yubing Guo +4 more
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Ferronematic Liquid Crystal Polymers and Elastomers
MATERIAIS 2022, 2022 Liquid crystal polymers, through covalent bonding, combine the spontaneous long range orientational order of the liquid crystal state with the entropically driven random coil configurations of the skeletal polymer chains in a single material [1]. [...]
Reeves, Sarah J. +2 more
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Biomimetics, 2023 Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) are polymer networks that exhibit anisotropic liquid crystalline properties while maintaining the properties of elastomers, presenting reversible high-speed and large-scale actuation in response to external stimuli ...
Shuyi Li +4 more
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Modeling and simulation of liquid-crystal elastomers
Physical Review E, 2011 We consider a continuum model describing the dynamic behavior of nematic liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) and implement a numerical scheme to solve the governing equations. In the model, the Helmholtz free energy and Rayleigh dissipation are used, within a Lagrangian framework, to obtain the equations of motion. The free energy consists of both elastic
Zhu, Wei +2 more
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Layered liquid crystal elastomer actuators [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2018 AbstractLiquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are soft, anisotropic materials that exhibit large shape transformations when subjected to various stimuli. Here we demonstrate a facile approach to enhance the out-of-plane work capacity of these materials by an order of magnitude, to nearly 20 J/kg.
Tyler Guin +6 more
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Internal constraints and arrested relaxation in main-chain nematic elastomers
Nature Communications, 2021 Nematic liquid crystal elastomers (N-LCE) have a slow relaxation, which can prevent their shape recovery. Here, the authors examine mechanical hysteresis in a series of main-chain N-LCE to understand how the inherent nematic order retards and arrests the
Takuya Ohzono +4 more
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Morphing of liquid crystal surfaces by emergent collectivity
Nature Communications, 2019 Liquid crystal networks can morph their shape in response to electrical stimulus. Here the authors provide a detailed description of their deformation mechanism and introduce a method to observe the dynamic surface of liquid crystal elastomers.
Hanne M. van der Kooij +5 more
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